The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 199
t, had, athis residence of Grove End, constructed a model of a similarapparatus, without at the time having any communication withMr. Bacon, with which he tried the experiment successfully.The garden at Elcot contains four houses for vines andpeaches, and also a pine pit heated with hot water, and… … centre of the back wall: the fire-place under the wall is gotat from a back shed (b). The boiler is two feet six incheslong, one foot six inches wide, and one foot eight inches deep.From the end of the boiler proceed, horizontally, four cast-iron pipes of three and a half inches diameter (c): two…
